Crazy Vacation Plans - Start with a Potato Chip Bag....

One January I was eating a sandwich and chips and looked at the back of the bag - THIS summer we are driving from Chicago to the Cape and touring this potato chip factory - and we did.

We drove from Chicago to Buffalo straight over to Maine and down the entire coast hitting NYC last and headed home. Two weeks of driving and sightseeing on the east coast. We also had a chance to hit Ben & Jerry's, Vermont Teddy Bear, CC Chips, and Hershey's on the way back.

What crazy trips have you planned? What about this summer?

Not sure yet but you have made me seriously hungry and it's still 2 hours until lunch.

The rain in Maine falls mainly on the crane:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Iron_Works

Not particularly relevant, but your post made me think of a trip I took to Maine as a high school student. Lots of good memories. Guess I'm feeling reflective today.

If driving 3 weeks and 7,000 miles in a Miata counts as crazy...

I'm leaving on June 22nd.

that actually sounds like a cool road trip.

I woke up in Oakland one day (not recommended) with nothing to do, opened a map, saw that I was only a few hours from Yosemite and started driving. It turned out to be one of the best days of my life.

We (myself, the wife and our two kids) are tentatively planning a road trip to Florida this November. Ideally we'll be hitting the challenge for a day or two then the mouse for 3-5 days.

Iono, a buddy and I rode from Milwaukee to St Paul, for lunch, then back home, one Saturday, in October. It was roughly 638 miles.

New England is a great place for a driving vacation in summertime. Weather in the 70's and low 80's mostly. Perfect for top-down motoring.

The Coastal towns are of course cool, but traffic can be a bit congested. Head to inland Maine to see some really beautiful country. Watch out for dem Mooses!

I drove from Tampa, Florida to Burlington, Vermont in two hours in my Stingray!

Get up drive two hours, have breakfast, drive two hours, have lunch, drive two hours have dinner, drive two hours, find hotel for the night. Took three days. Lost a heater hose in North Carolina, but hey it's a 75 Vette--nearest truck stop had what I needed to get back under way.

Swank Force One wrote: If driving 3 weeks and 7,000 miles in a Miata counts as crazy... I'm leaving on June 22nd.

we need to hear more about this.....where you headed?

I'm about 5 minutes from Ben & Jerry's

Datsun310Guy wrote:

Swank Force One wrote: If driving 3 weeks and 7,000 miles in a Miata counts as crazy... I'm leaving on June 22nd.

we need to hear more about this.....where you headed?

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/3-week-roadtrip-in-a-miata/63671/page1/

I need to start a new thread asking about specific attractions, food places, and areas to avoid.

A buddy of mine stopped by last night to look at buying my Karmann Ghia for a 49 state road trip this fall. It's possibly going to be a reality show and he's insisting on an air cooled VW for the trip.

Not too far from my place. There are a few GRM'ers near the Cape.

I once took an all-day motorcycle trip a few years ago. Got up, and drove the state highways down to the citrus groves south of Orlando. It was a nice day, so instead of heading straight back, took I-4 west to Tampa so that I could check out Ybor City for dinner. About the time it became dark, I took the I yet state back to Gainesville, keeping it pegged at 85. I was exhausted, but just shy of 400 miles, it was a good day.

Most of you guys will think this is a crazy trip....

I'm spending two weeks in Disney this summer. And no, I'm not dreading it at all, I'm looking forward to it. My kids are the perfect ages, and my wife and I really enjoy it too. Buying 10 day passes, and will spend the other days at a beach, probably Daytona.

Klayfish wrote: Most of you guys will think this is a crazy trip.... I'm spending two weeks in Disney this summer. And no, I'm not dreading it at all, I'm looking forward to it. My kids are the perfect ages, and my wife and I really enjoy it too. Buying 10 day passes, and will spend the other days at a beach, probably Daytona.

I don't think it's crazy! We had a good time at Disney. I don't get all the hate.

Just going to Emerald Isle NC, Southport NC (The town from the Safehaven movie), Carolina Beach NC and maybe Blowing Rock. Not going too far out of our comfort zone this year, but all the places are free, so I cant argue.

I'm hoping I get called off the wait list for drag week. Then hopefully I can convince the wife to ride 13 hours in the van to FL in Nov. It's easy to convince her to go to FL because that's where her parents live.

moparman76_69 wrote: I'm hoping I get called off the wait list for drag week. Then hopefully I can convince the wife to ride 13 hours in the van to FL in Nov. It's easy to convince her to go to FL because that's where her parents live.

You know what else is in Florida in November?

Swank Force One wrote:

moparman76_69 wrote: I'm hoping I get called off the wait list for drag week. Then hopefully I can convince the wife to ride 13 hours in the van to FL in Nov. It's easy to convince her to go to FL because that's where her parents live.

You know what else is in Florida in November?

Old New Yorkers

We went to Niagara Falls and realized we weren't going to want to spend a whole week there. Flipping channels in the hotel we saw something about the Henry Ford Museum, got a room on Priceline and headed out. The last few years we have only been able to get 3-4 vacation days together at a time so we get in the car and pick a direction and stop at whatever looks interesting.

Watching Top Gear on Netflix last summer reminded me that I'd been wanting to go to Iceland and hadn't been on vacation in forever. A month or so later I was enjoying one of my best adventures ever

Datsun310Guy wrote: What crazy trips have you planned? What about this summer?

You mean like the one where I drove from Edmonton, Alberta, into BC to pick up a brand new trailer (cheapest 20' car hauler in North America brand new), drove down to the Shelton, Washington area, bought $4500 worth of race fuel (that's 10, 205 gallon drums, which would have cost double up here), drove to Corvallis Oregon to eat delicious mexican food and pick up a couple grand worth of parts ordered through Amazon and then towed it back through the mountain passes of Idaho/Montana, crossed the border like a boss with no issues, and then dropped some of it off for friends and had a 1.5 year supply of race fuel for myself?

Trips like that? The truck was DEFINITELY at max GVW :p

Or how about the time I worked 21 days straight, flew back from up north to catch another flight 6 hours later, drove from southern cali into mexico, raced down the baja peninsula over 4 days, flew from cabo to portland oregon, drank my face off, went to a rally (not the hippie kind, the racing kind ) and then drove 16 hours back to Edmonton?

Or that other time, were I flew from Edmonton to Montreal, rented a car and drove from Montreal to Newry Maine, (got asked if I knew where to get some E on arrival LOL), slept in a hostel, spectated the rally, met some of the engineers from Vermont Sportscar, drove to Loudon, NH for Global Rallycross, hung out, got invited into the Subaru/Puma catered suite (free beer and wings in an AC environment with some action sport athletes and bigwigs), then drove back to montreal and flew back to edmonton?

Do you mean trips like those??

How did you cross the border with all that fuel?!